
The Future
Reviews







Highlights

Maybe that’s what love was, or sudden pointed lust, or attraction or whatever Zhen had felt in that first moment, just a recognition that this person would be able to understand the worst thing that had happened in your life.

How does trust build between people? It is an offering and a receiving. It is putting yourself into the position to be hurt, just a little, and noticing that they refrain. It is the reaching out between people, laughing at the same moment. It is building a model of the other person inside yourself, placing them in the palm of your hand, rotating them and saying: Yes. I see the flaws and I see the dangers and nothing will happen here that will truly harm me. And it is saying: I would rather trust you than be alone.

“If I met someone, I’d fall through the hole in the ice inside myself. I can’t be happy again because then I’d know how unhappy I am.”